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A view from the diving board is seen at Holgate’s community pool last week. Village administrator Dan Davis
told council this month that the pool is in need of significant repairs if it is to reopen in 2015.
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In this image made from undated video obtained by Associated Press, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man believed to be Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. citizen held hostage by an al-Qaida linked group in Syria, delivers a statement. The U.S. government said on Sunday that Curtis, who had been held hostage for about two years, had been released.
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An angel statue which lost its feet during the earthquake is seen Sunday at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park, in Napa, Calif.
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Poplar Ridge Church of the Brethren, located at 06970 Domersville Road, Defiance, is hosting a preschool classroom for Northeastern Local Schools beginning this school year. Discussing the program are, from left: Holly Evinger, special education supervisor at Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center; Alissa Hall, preschool intervention specialist at NwOESC; Amanda Westrick, administrator at Poplar Ridge Training Station; and Denise Wright, administrator at Northeastern Local School.
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